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Professor Pastore's research is focused on understanding how nuclear properties emerge from the underlying nucleonic dynamics, with the broader goal of contributing to ongoing experimental efforts in nuclear physics, fundamental symmetries, and neutrino physics.

This research requires an accurate understanding of nucleonic interactions and how nuclei interact with external probes including photons, electrons, and neutrinos. It also requires the capability of solving for the structure and dynamics of the strongly-correlated many-body problem for nuclei. Pastore uses chiral effective field theories and phenomenological approaches to construct nuclear interactions and currents, and Quantum Monte Carlo methods to solve for the nuclear structure and dynamics.

The broader goal of Pastore's research is to contribute to ongoing experimental efforts addressing open questions in nuclear physics and their connections to physics more generally. These more general questions include discovering the fundamental nature of neutrinos, identifying the particle nature of dark matter, and understanding the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. These efforts are important to many experiments in the national nuclear and particle physics program, including FRIB, neutrinoless double-beta decay, DUNE, and Jefferson Lab.

Prior to her arrival at Washington University in 2018, Pastore conducted postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division T2.